Top Level Categories
The Top Level Categories plugin allows you to remove the prefix before the URL to your category page. For example, instead of http://fortes.com/category/work, I use http://fortes.com/work for the address my “work” category. WordPress doesn’t allow you to have a blank prefix for categories (they inse
The Top Level Categories plugin allows you to remove the prefix before the URL to your category page. For example, instead of http://fortes.com/category/work, I use http://fortes.com/work for the address my “work” category. WordPress doesn’t allow you to have a blank prefix for categories (they insert category/ before the name), this plugin works around that restriction.
Known Issues / Bugs
- 01This plugin will not work if you have a permalink structure like %postname or %category%/%postname% — there is currently no workaround
Uninstall
- 02Deactivate the plugin
- 03That’s it! 🙂
- 01Copy the top-level-cats.php file into your wp-content/plugins directory
- 02Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- 03That’s it! 🙂
Frequently asked questions.
Installation Instructions
Copy the top-level-cats.php file into your wp-content/plugins directory Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress That’s it! 🙂
My links are broken when using `%postname` or `%category%/%postname%` as my permalink structure
This is a known issue, for which there is unfortunately no good workaround. If you add a suffix to your permalink structure (such as .html ) you can fix this issue. For example, try %category%/%postname%.html — I realize this is not ideal, but there is no good solution for this issue.
How do I automatically redirect people from the old category permalink?
Use the Permalink Redirect Plugin
